Thursday, September 9, 2021
10 Most-Cited Law & Technology Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in law & technology (including Internet law [cyberlaw], informational privacy, cybersecurity, and AI/robotics) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. This is a new category, growing out of (justified) dissatisfaction with the lumping together of cyberlaw and intellectual property in 2018; there will be a separate listing for intellectual property, probably later this week. (I am grateful to Professors Ryan Calo [Washington/Seattle] and Mark Lemley [Stanford] for help in thinking about how to define the new category.) Faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."
Law & Technology (incl. Internet law, informational privacy, cybersecurity, AI/robotics)
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
1 |
Daniel Solove |
George Washington University |
1110 |
49 |
2 |
Danielle Citron |
University of Virginia |
960 |
53 |
3 |
Frank Pasquale |
Brooklyn Law School |
700 |
47 |
4 |
Ryan Calo |
University of Washington, Seattle |
560 |
44 |
5 |
Neil Richards |
Washington University, St. Louis |
530 |
49 |
6 |
Paul Schwartz |
University of California, Berkeley |
520 |
62 |
7 |
Woodrow Hartzog |
Northeastern University |
480 |
43 |
8 |
Paul Ohm |
Georgetown University |
460 |
48 |
9 |
Eric Goldman |
Santa Clara University |
440 |
53 |
10 |
Yochai Benkler |
Harvard University |
400 |
57 |
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
1910 |
55 |
|
Jack Balkin |
Yale University |
1650 |
65 |
|
Lawrence Lessig |
Harvard University |
1150 |
60 |
|
Julie Cohen |
Georgetown University |
670 |
57 |
|
Orly Lobel |
University of San Diego |
500 |
48 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09/10-most-cited-law-technology-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html